# 2009 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2009.

## Reformed bands

* Accept
* Arcturus
* Ark
* Autopsy
* Beherit
* Beneath the Sky
* Creed
* The Crown
* Decapitated
* Faith No More
* Gorguts
* Saint Vitus (few shows only)
* Steel Attack
* To/Die/For
* Unanimated
* Year of Desolation

## Disbandments

* After Forever
* Angelcorpse
* Animosity
* Battle of Mice
* Burnt by the Sun
* Burst
* Divinity Destroyed
* Falchion
* God Seed
* Gorefest
* Grief
* Lock Up
* Lord Belial
* Metal Church
* Nothingface
* The Old Dead Tree
* Opiate for the Masses
* Running Wild
* Subzero
* To/Die/For
* Twilightning
* xDEATHSTARx

## Events

* Iron Maiden complete their globe-trotting Somewhere Back in Time World Tour, playing 90 shows in 38 countries.
* Iron Maiden become the first heavy metal band to win a Brit Award, winning the Best Live Act at the awards ceremony.
* Former Arsis guitarist Ryan Knight joins The Black Dahlia Murder in late January, replacing John Kempainen.
* Guitarist Doug Weber leaves Terror in January and is replaced by former No Warning guitarist Jordan Posner.
* Metallica is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 4 April.
* Metallica's 2008 album Death Magnetic is nominated for four Grammy categories, winning Best Recording Package and Best Metal Performance for "My Apocalypse".
* Cannibal Corpse wins "Greatest Death Metal Song" with "Hammer Smashed Face" in a poll on the Metal Hammer website. Arch Enemy places second with "We Will Rise", Death third with "Crystal Mountain".
* Finnish metal band Norther parts ways with longtime singer/guitarist Petri Lindroos and announces Aleksi Sihvonen (Medicated, ex-Imperanon) as the replacement vocalist.
* Varg Vikernes is released from prison after 16 years of incarceration for the murder of Øystein Aarseth (aka Euronymous).
* The Gorgoroth name dispute concludes with a court verdict recognising Gorgoroth founding member Infernus as the legitimate user of the band name. Contestants Gaahl and King ov Hell form God Seed, but Gaahl retires from metal within a few months and King forms Ov Hell with Shagrath.
* Susperia vocalist Athera suffers a heart attack, and is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that requires a triple heart bypass. Athera successfully undergoes open heart surgery at Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Oslo on 16 March 2009.
* Dimmu Borgir's Dariusz "Daray" Brzozowski ranks No. 1 drummer in Poland's "Top Drummer" magazine.
* Shadows Fall announces the formation of its own label in conjunction with Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group and Ferret Music.
* Sonic Syndicate vocalist Roland Johansson quits the band.
* Original Arsis drummer Michael VanDyne returns to the band full-time.
* God Forbid confirms the departure of rhythm guitarist Dallas Coyle and announces former Darkest Hour guitarist Kris Norris as his replacement.
* Former Sentenced guitarist Miika Tenkula is found dead in his home from a heart attack due to a genetic condition. His overall health was presumably worsened by his heavy drinking problem.
* Satyricon bassist Victor Brandt quits the band in April.
* Venom drummer Antton leaves the band to focus on his other musical projects.
* Megadeth and Slayer co-headline "Canadian Carnage" with Machine Head and Suicide Silence.
* Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom breaks arm on tour.
* Rigor Mortis guitarist Mike Scaccia is set to undergo emergency neck surgery. The MRI scan noticed Scaccia has a Cervical Herniated Disc in his lower neck, which could make him paralyzed without immediate surgery.
* Dead to Fall announces farewell show.
* Carpathian Forest guitarist/bassist Tchort leaves the band in May.
* Kataklysm guitarist Jean-Francois Dagenais is detained and arrested under the presumption of being on the FBI international most wanted list.
* Every Time I Die parts ways with drummer Mike "Ratboy" Novak, who had been with the band for 11 years.
* Deep Purple are issued a fine in Russia for "illegally" playing their own songs in Rostov-on-Don in October 2008.
* Brainstorm sign with AFM Records.
* Founding member and original Crimson Glory frontman Midnight dies on 8 July 2009.
* Jørn Lande returns to Masterplan.
* Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine undergoes neck surgery.
* The Bled signs to Rise Records.
* Sonic Syndicate announces new vocalist Nathan James Biggs.
* ICS Vortex and Mustis leaves Dimmu Borgir.
* Destruction guitarist Mike Sifringer breaks his ring finger in Belgium.
* Former 3 Inches of Blood bassist Brian Redman dies on Saturday 27 September in a car crash near his home in Tacoma, Washington.
* Evile bassist Mike Alexander falls ill and dies at the age of 32 on 5 October in Luleå, Sweden.
* In a partnership between Earache Records and RapidShare, Irish thrash metal band Gama Bomb makes its third studio album, Tales from the Grave in Space, available for free download on 5 November 2009.
* Steven Tyler is laid off from Aerosmith on 14 November 2009. The lay-off was due to multiple factors, namely redundancies in the singing-songwriting division and rising rehab fees that have cost the group millions.
* Mercenary parts ways with drummer Mike Park, vocalist Mikke Sandager and keyboardist Morten Sandager.
* Former Death and Control Denied guitarist Shannon Hamm suffers a heart attack at home on 1 October.
* Ronnie James Dio is diagnosed with stomach cancer and is being treated at the Mayo Clinic.
* The Rev, drummer of Avenged Sevenfold, is found dead at his home in Huntington Beach on 28 December.

## Books

* ECW Press released a book looking at the work of producer Rick Rubin, entitled Rick Rubin: In the Studio, written by biographer Jake Brown on 11 August.
* Former Stratovarius member Timo Tolkki published his autobiography, Hymn to Life – Entr'acte, on 2 November, through Goldenworks Ltd./Blacksmith Ltd.
* At the End of the Day, a book charting the career of Blaze Bayley, was released on 25 September.
* All That Matters, a Metallica biography written by Paul Stenning, was released in October via Plexus Publishing.
* Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times: A Visual Biography, a book examining the public and private lives of the members of Led Zeppelin, was released on 1 October, via Abrams Publishing.
* Rock photographer Neil Zlozower releases Mötley Crüe: A Visual History, 1983–2005 via Chronicle Books.
* A limited-edition book, Vintage Kiss Photos: 1974–1981, compiled by Marc Scallatino, was released, charting Kiss's early days.
* Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth and Gavin Baddeley release The Gospel of Filth, a book exploring the history of the band and more general topics of the dark side of humanity, on 31 October.
* New book announced on the history of metal titled Louder Than Hell: The Unflinching Oral History of Metal.
* Rudolf Schenker of the Scorpions released his autobiography, entitled Rock Your Life, in Germany on 14 October.
* Heavy metal magazine Decibel released Precious Metal: The Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces in July. The book pays tribute to the 25 most influential extreme metal albums of all time. Some of the albums listed include Slayer's Reign in Blood, Cannibal Corpse's Tomb of the Mutilated, Converge's Jane Doe and Meshuggah's Destroy Erase Improve.
* All Pens Blazing, a heavy metal writer's handbook containing interviews and a history of heavy metal publications, is released on 16 August.
* Ozzy Osbourne released his autobiography, I Am Ozzy, on 1 October.
* Bazillion Points Books released Only Death Is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost, a book exploring the bands Hellhammer and Celtic Frost written by band members Tom Fischer and Martin Eric Ain, in November 2009.
* Two books came from author Joel McIver, the first called The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists with a foreword by Glen Benton of Deicide and the second titled To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton, with a foreword by Kirk Hammett.

## Films

On 8 December, Bill Zebub will release Pagan Metal: A Documentary, the first documentary about pagan and folk metal.

## Albums released
### January

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Vreid | Milorg |
| 6 | Destroy Destroy Destroy | Battle Sluts |
| 9 | Bourbon Crow | Long Way to the Bottom |
| 9 | Grave Digger | Ballads of a Hangman |
| 9 | Iron Fire | To the Grave |
| 13 | Kreator | Hordes of Chaos |
| 13 | Saxon | Into the Labyrinth |
| 20 | Cattle Decapitation | The Harvest Floor |
| 20 | Rumpelstiltskin Grinder | Living for Death, Destroying the Rest |
| 23 | Sepultura | A-Lex |
| 23 | Napalm Death | Time Waits for No Slave |
| 23 | Sirenia | The 13th Floor |
| 23 | Vision Divine | 9 Degrees West of the Moon |
| 26 | Architects | Hollow Crown |
| 26 | Dark Moor | Autumnal |
| 26 | Ephel Duath | Through My Dog's Eyes |
| 30 | Buckethead | Slaughterhouse on the Prairie |
| 30 | Deathstars | Night Electric Night |

### February

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Cannibal Corpse | Evisceration Plague |
| 3 | This Ending | Dead Harvest |
| 9 | Adagio | Archangels in Black |
| 10 | Luna Mortis | The Absence |
| 10 | Red | Innocence & Instinct |
| 16 | God Forbid | Earthsblood |
| 17 | Psyopus | Odd Senses |
| 17 | Saros | Acrid Plains |
| 17 | Wolves in the Throne Room | Malevolent Grain (EP) |
| 17 | Obscura | Cosmogenesis |
| 20 | HammerFall | No Sacrifice, No Victory |
| 20 | Suidakra | Crógacht |
| 23 | Autumn | Altitude |
| 23 | Rotting Christ | Non Serviam — A 20 Year Apocryphal Story (live DVD/CD) |
| 23 | The Agonist | Lullabies for the Dormant Mind |
| 23 | Wolf | Ravenous |
| 24 | Absu | Absu |
| 24 | August Burns Red | Lost Messengers: The Outtakes (EP) |
| 24 | Lamb of God | Wrath |
| 25 | Impellitteri | Wicked Maiden |
| 27 | Arch Enemy | Manifesto of Arch Enemy (compilation) |
| 27 | The Burning | Rewakening |
| 27 | Isole | Silent Ruins |
| 27 | Lunatica | New Shores |
| 27 | Malefice | Dawn of Reprisal |
| 27 | The Sorrow | Origin of the Storm |

### March

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Solitude Aeturnus | Hour of Despair |
| 3 | Buried Inside | Spoils of Failure |
| 6 | Nightwish | Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places) (live CD/DVD) |
| 6 | Samael | Above |
| 9 | The Haunted | Warning Shots (compilation) |
| 10 | Dope | No Regrets |
| 10 | The Number Twelve Looks Like You | Worse Than Alone |
| 10 | Red Fang | Red Fang |
| 10 | Yngwie Malmsteen | Angels of Love |
| 11 | Dark The Suns | All Ends in Silence |
| 13 | Domain | The Chronicles of Love, Hate and Sorrow |
| 15 | Thanatos | Justified Genocide |
| 16 | Pestilence | Resurrection Macabre |
| 17 | Believer | Gabriel |
| 17 | Kylesa | Static Tensions |
| 17 | Static-X | Cult of Static |
| 20 | Agathodaimon | Phoenix |
| 20 | Black Messiah | First War of the World |
| 20 | Ektomorf | What Doesn't Kill Me... |
| 20 | Delain | April Rain |
| 23 | My Dying Bride | For Lies I Sire |
| 23 | Revolution Renaissance | Age of Aquarius |
| 24 | Mastodon | Crack the Skye |
| 25 | Fairyland | Score to a New Beginning |
| 25 | Raven | Walk Through Fire |
| 27 | Candlemass | Death Magic Doom |
| 30 | Hatesphere | To The Nines |
| 31 | Impending Doom | The Serpent Servant |
| 31 | Queensrÿche | American Soldier |
| 31 | Wolves in the Throne Room | Black Cascade |

### April

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky | The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry |
| 6 | Cauldron | Chained to the Nite |
| 6 | Code | Resplendent Grotesque |
| 7 | The Color of Violence | Youthanize |
| 9 | Beherit | Engram |
| 10 | Eluveitie | Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion |
| 14 | Agoraphobic Nosebleed | Agorapocalypse |
| 14 | Brutal Truth | Evolution Through Revolution |
| 14 | Karl Sanders | Saurian Exorcisms |
| 15 | Ajattara | Noitumaa |
| 15 | Rudra | Brahmavidya: Transcendental I |
| 15 | Soilent Green | Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction |
| 16 | Emperor | Live Inferno (live CD/DVD) |
| 17 | Death Angel | Sonic German Beatdown – Live in Germany (live album) |
| 17 | Disbelief | Protected Hell |
| 17 | Endstille | Verführer |
| 17 | Maroon | Order |
| 19 | Mastercastle | The Phoenix |
| 20 | Earth Crisis | To the Death |
| 20 | Hacride | Lazarus |
| 20 | Lacuna Coil | Shallow Life |
| 21 | Black Label Society | Skullage (compilation/DVD) |
| 21 | Bloodbound | Tabula Rasa |
| 21 | Chimaira | The Infection |
| 21 | Dååth | The Concealers |
| 22 | National Napalm Syndicate | Devolution of Species |
| 24 | God Dethroned | Passiondale |
| 24 | Powerwolf | Bible of the Beast |
| 24 | Wolfchant | Determined Damnation |
| 27 | Blood Tsunami | Grand Feast for Vultures |
| 27 | Heaven and Hell | The Devil You Know |
| 27 | Nadja | When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV (cover album) |
| 27 | OSI | Blood |
| 28 | Animals as Leaders | Animals as Leaders |
| 29 | Impiety | Terroreign (Apocalyptic Armageddon Command) |
| 29 | Jungle Rot | What Horrors Await |

### May

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Buckethead | A Real Diamond in the Rough |
| 4 | Edenbridge | LiveEarthDream |
| 4 | The Gathering | The West Pole |
| 5 | The Chariot | Wars and Rumors of Wars |
| 5 | The Devil Wears Prada | With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| 5 | Hatebreed | For the Lions (cover album) |
| 5 | Isis | Wavering Radiant |
| 5 | Nachtmystium | Doomsday Derelicts (EP) |
| 5 | Necrodeath | Phylogensis |
| 5 | Zao | AWAKE? |
| 6 | Obliterate | Something Wrong |
| 8 | Epica | The Classical Conspiracy (live album) |
| 8 | Lacrimosa | Sehnsucht |
| 8 | Slough Feg | Ape Uprising! |
| 11 | Devils Whorehouse | Blood & Ashes |
| 11 | Nattefrost | Engangsgrill |
| 11 | Vomitory | Carnage Euphoria |
| 12 | Sacred Oath | Sacred Oath |
| 12 | The Black Dahlia Murder | Majesty (DVD) |
| 13 | Spiritus Mortis | The God Behind The God |
| 15 | Tim "Ripper" Owens | Play My Game |
| 18 | Old Man's Child | Slaves of the World |
| 18 | Stratovarius | Polaris |
| 18 | Sunn O))) | Monoliths and Dimensions |
| 18 | Susperia | Attitude |
| 19 | Warbringer | Waking into Nightmares |
| 20 | Mystic Prophecy | Fireangel |
| 20 | Marilyn Manson | The High End of Low |
| 22 | Cage | Science of Annihilation |
| 22 | Devin Townsend | Ki |
| 22 | Neaera | Omnicide – Creation Unleashed |
| 22 | Primal Fear | 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) |
| 22 | Skyclad | In The... All Together |
| 22 | Therion | The Miskolc Experience (Live Album) |
| 22 | Unanimated | In the Light of Darkness (The Covenant of Death) |
| 25 | Ava Inferi | Blood of Bacchus |
| 25 | Heaven Shall Burn | Bildersturm – Iconoclast II (The Visual Resistance) (DVD) |
| 25 | Pathosray | Sunless Skies |
| 25 | Xasthur | All Reflections Drained |
| 26 | Bury Your Dead | It's Nothing Personal |
| 26 | Khanate | Clean Hands Go Foul |
| 26 | Minsk | With Echoes in the Movement of Stone |
| 26 | Nahemah | A New Constellation |
| 27 | Alestorm | Black Sails at Midnight |
| 27 | Glittertind | Landkjenning |
| 27 | Stream of Passion | The Flame Within |
| 27 | Trail of Tears | Bloodstained Endurance |
| 29 | Amorphis | Skyforger |
| 29 | Andreas Kisser | Hubris I & II |
| 29 | Devourment | Unleash the Carnivore |
| 29 | Necrophobic | Death To All |
| 29 | Týr | By the Light of the Northern Star |
| 29 | UFO | The Visitor |

### June

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Avulsed | Nullo (The Pleasure of Self-Mutilation) |
| 1 | Buckethead | Forensic Follies |
| 1 | Pantheon I | Worlds I Create |
| 2 | 1349 | Revelations of the Black Flame |
| 4 | Pelican | Ephemeral (EP) |
| 8 | Hate | The Litanies of Satan (DVD) |
| 8 | Steel Panther | Feel the Steel |
| 9 | Amoral | Show Your Colors |
| 9 | The Autumn Offering | Requiem |
| 9 | Coalesce | OX |
| 9 | Darkness Dynamite | The Astonishing Fury of Mankind |
| 9 | Mortification | The Evil Addiction Destroying Machine |
| 15 | Artillery | When Death Comes |
| 15 | Riverside | Anno Domini High Definition |
| 16 | Graveworm | Diabolical Figures |
| 16 | Madder Mortem | Eight Ways |
| 16 | Sworn Enemy | Total World Domination |
| 19 | Deströyer 666 | Defiance |
| 19 | Ex Deo | Romulus |
| 19 | Goatwhore | Carving Out The Eyes of God |
| 19 | RAM | Lightbringer |
| 22 | Asphyx | Death...The Brutal Way |
| 22 | Drudkh | Microcosmos |
| 22 | Nightrage | Wearing a Martyr's Crown |
| 22 | Spinal Tap | Back from the Dead |
| 23 | Darkest Hour | The Eternal Return |
| 23 | Dream Theater | Black Clouds & Silver Linings |
| 23 | Seventh Angel | The Dust of Years |
| 23 | Voivod | Infini |
| 24 | Elias Viljanen | Fire-Hearted |
| 26 | Korpiklaani | Karkelo |
| 26 | U.D.O. | Infected (EP) |
| 29 | Amberian Dawn | The Clouds of Northland Thunder |
| 29 | Anaal Nathrakh | In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| 30 | Blood Red Throne | Souls of Damnation |
| 30 | Killswitch Engage | Killswitch Engage |
| 30 | Obituary | Darkest Day |
| 30 | Shining | Shining VI: Klagopsalmer |
| 30 | Suicide Silence | No Time to Bleed |

### July

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 6 | The Project Hate | The Lustrate Process |
| 6 | Skyfire | Fractal (EP) |
| 7 | Born of Osiris | A Higher Place |
| 7 | Church of Misery | House of the Unholy |
| 7 | Grief of War | Worship |
| 7 | Job for a Cowboy | Ruination |
| 7 | Moss | Tombs of the Blind Drugged (EP) |
| 7 | Novembers Doom | Into Night's Requiem Infernal |
| 7 | Suffocation | Blood Oath |
| 14 | Arkaea | Years in the Darkness |
| 14 | Arsonists Get All the Girls | Portals |
| 14 | August Burns Red | Constellations |
| 14 | DevilDriver | Pray for Villains |
| 14 | Jorn | Spirit Black |
| 14 | Judas Priest | A Touch of Evil: Live |
| 17 | Horna | Musta Kaipuu |
| 17 | Manowar | Thunder in the Sky (EP) |
| 17 | Merauder | God is I |
| 20 | Onslaught | Live Damnation (live album) |
| 21 | Atheist | Unquestionable Presence: Live at Wacken (live album) |
| 21 | Stryper | Murder by Pride |
| 21 | For the Fallen Dreams | Relentless |
| 21 | The Word Alive | Empire (EP) |
| 22 | Ahab | The Divinity of Oceans |
| 22 | Persefone | Shin-Ken |
| 24 | Leaves' Eyes | My Destiny (EP) |
| 24 | Narnia | Course of a Generation |
| 27 | Dismember | Under Bloodred Skies (DVD) |
| 27 | Nazxul | Iconoclast |
| 28 | Divine Heresy | Bringer of Plagues |

### August

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Ghost Brigade | Isolation Songs |
| 4 | Man Must Die | No Tolerance for Imperfection |
| 6 | Dead and Divine | The Machines We Are |
| 7 | Behemoth | Evangelion |
| 10 | Chthonic | Mirror of Retribution |
| 11 | Bloody Panda | Summon |
| 11 | Winds of Plague | The Great Stone War |
| 18 | Goreaphobia | Mortal Repulsion |
| 18 | Gwar | Lust in Space |
| 18 | Ignominious Incarceration | Of Winter Born |
| 18 | Otep | Smash the Control Machine |
| 21 | U.D.O. | Dominator |
| 21 | Vader | Necropolis |
| 24 | Caliban | Say Hello to Tragedy |
| 24 | Municipal Waste | Massive Aggressive |
| 25 | Azaghal | Teraphim |
| 25 | Burnt by the Sun | Heart of Darkness |
| 25 | Oh, Sleeper | Son of the Morning |
| 25 | Skillet | Awake |
| 26 | Leaves' Eyes | Njord |
| 26 | Warmen | Japanese Hospitality |
| 28 | Axxis | Utopia |
| 28 | Guilt Machine | On This Perfect Day |
| 28 | Illdisposed | To Those Who Walk Behind Us |
| 28 | Jorn | The Dukebox (best of) |
| 28 | Krypteria | My Fatal Kiss |
| 28 | Saltatio Mortis | Wer Wind Sat |
| 28 | The 69 Eyes | Back in Blood |

### September

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 8 | 3 Inches of Blood | Here Waits Thy Doom |
| 8 | Advent | Naked And Cold |
| 8 | Dethklok | The Dethalbum II |
| 9 | Ablaze My Sorrow | The Suicide Note (EP) |
| 9 | Candiria | Toying with the Insanities |
| 9 | Ensiferum | From Afar |
| 9 | Insomnium | Across the Dark |
| 9 | Thunderstone | Dirt Metal |
| 11 | Secrets of the Moon | Privilegivm |
| 11 | Threat Signal | Vigilance |
| 13 | The Gates of Slumber | Hymns of Blood & Thunder |
| 14 | Skyfire | Esoteric |
| 15 | Asking Alexandria | Stand Up and Scream |
| 15 | The Black Dahlia Murder | Deflorate |
| 15 | Dream Theater | Wither (EP) |
| 15 | Dying Fetus | Descend into Depravity |
| 15 | Every Time I Die | New Junk Aesthetic |
| 15 | It Dies Today | Lividity |
| 15 | Kittie | In The Black |
| 15 | Living Colour | The Chair in the Doorway |
| 15 | Megadeth | Endgame |
| 15 | Meliah Rage | Masquerade |
| 15 | Ministry | The Last Dubber (Re-mix Album) |
| 15 | Protest the Hero | Gallop Meets the Earth (live CD/DVD) |
| 15 | Salt the Wound | Ares |
| 15 | Shadows Fall | Retribution |
| 15 | Skinlab | The Scars Between Us |
| 18 | At Vance | Ride the Sky |
| 18 | Danger Danger | Revolve |
| 18 | Europe | Last Look at Eden |
| 18 | Lynch Mob | Smoke And Mirrors |
| 18 | Sonata Arctica | The Days of Grays |
| 18 | Theatre of Tragedy | Forever Is the World |
| 21 | Diablo Swing Orchestra | Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious |
| 21 | Evile | Infected Nations |
| 21 | Ronny Munroe | The Fire Within |
| 21 | Sinister | Prophecies Denied (DVD) |
| 22 | Children of Bodom | Skeletons in the Closet |
| 22 | Despised Icon | Day of Mourning |
| 22 | Echoes of Eternity | As Shadows Burn |
| 22 | Five Finger Death Punch | War Is the Answer |
| 22 | Parkway Drive | The DVD (DVD) |
| 22 | Skindred | Shark Bites and Dog Fights |
| 22 | Three Days Grace | Life Starts Now |
| 24 | Buckethead | Needle in a Slunk Stack |
| 24 | Marduk | Wormwood |
| 25 | Destruction | The Curse of the Antichrist – Live in Agony (live album) |
| 25 | Immortal | All Shall Fall |
| 25 | Metalium | Grounded – Chapter Eight |
| 25 | Paradise Lost | Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us |
| 26 | Tyrants Blood | Crushing Onward into Oblivion |
| 28 | Arch Enemy | The Root of All Evil |
| 28 | Dalriada | Arany-Album |
| 28 | Redemption | Snowfall on Judgment Day |
| 29 | Alice in Chains | Black Gives Way to Blue |
| 29 | Austrian Death Machine | Double Brutal |
| 29 | Black Cobra | Chronomega |
| 29 | Breaking Benjamin | Dear Agony |
| 29 | Doomriders | Darkness Come Alive |
| 29 | Evergreen Terrace | Almost Home |
| 29 | Hatebreed | Hatebreed |

### October

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Scar Symmetry | Dark Matter Dimensions |
| 5 | Marionette | Enemies |
| 6 | Ancestors | Of Sound Mind |
| 6 | Hirax | El Rostro de la Muerte |
| 6 | HORSE the band | Desperate Living |
| 6 | Inhale Exhale | Bury Me Alive |
| 6 | Kiss | Sonic Boom |
| 6 | Powerman 5000 | Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere |
| 9 | Belphegor | Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn |
| 9 | Lifelover | Dekadens (EP) |
| 9 | Mob Rules | Astral Hand (EP) |
| 10 | Massacration | Good Blood Headbanguers |
| 10 | Pythia | Beneath the Veiled Embrace |
| 12 | Ram-Zet | Neutralized |
| 12 | Slowmotion Apocalypse | Mothra |
| 12 | W.A.S.P. | Babylon |
| 13 | Baroness | Blue Record |
| 13 | Dawn of Azazel | Relentless |
| 13 | Saviours | Accelerated Living |
| 13 | Skeletonwitch | Breathing the Fire |
| 14 | Decadence | Chargepoint |
| 14 | Waltari | Below Zero |
| 16 | Brainstorm | Memorial Roots |
| 16 | Epica | Design Your Universe |
| 16 | Fragments of Unbecoming | The Everhaunting Past/Chapter IV – A Splendid Retrospection |
| 16 | Rammstein | Liebe ist für alle da |
| 16 | Winger | Karma |
| 19 | Skitliv | Skandinavisk Misantropi |
| 20 | Converge | Axe to Fall |
| 20 | Portal | Swarth |
| 21 | Freak Kitchen | Land of the Freaks |
| 21 | Gorgoroth | Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt |
| 21 | Russian Circles | Geneva |
| 22 | Månegarm | Nattväsen |
| 23 | Hypocrisy | A Taste of Extreme Divinity |
| 23 | Savage Circus | Of Doom and Death |
| 23 | Transatlantic | The Whirlwind |
| 24 | To-Mera | Earthbound (EP) |
| 26 | Dark Tranquillity | Where Death Is Most Alive (live CD/DVD) |
| 26 | Hellbastard | Eco-War (mini-CD) |
| 26 | Hellbastard | The Need to Kill |
| 26 | My Dying Bride | Bring Me Victory (EP) |
| 26 | Rob Halford | Halford III - Winter Songs |
| 26 | Shadow Gallery | Digital Ghosts |
| 27 | Atreyu | Congregation of the Damned |
| 27 | Between the Buried and Me | The Great Misdirect |
| 27 | Creed | Full Circle |
| 27 | Pelican | What We All Come to Need |
| 27 | The Red Chord | Fed Through The Teeth Machine |
| 27 | Suffocation | Live in Quebec – The Close of a Chapter (live album) |
| 27 | Whiplash | Unborn Again |
| 28 | Arkona | Goy, Rode, Goy! |
| 28 | Coldrain | Final Destination |
| 28 | Hollenthon | Tyrants and Wraiths (EP) |
| 30 | Annihilator | Live at Masters of Rock (Video album) |
| 30 | Nile | Those Whom the Gods Detest |
| 30 | Ruins | Front The Final Foes |
| 30 | Within Temptation | An Acoustic Night at the Theatre (Live Album) |
| 31 | Welicoruss | Apeiron |

### November

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Katatonia | Night Is the New Day |
| 2 | Slayer | World Painted Blood |
| 3 | Defiance | The Prophecy |
| 3 | Genitorturers | Blackheart Revolution |
| 3 | We Came as Romans | To Plant a Seed |
| 5 | Gama Bomb | Tales from the Grave in Space |
| 6 | Brainstorm | Just Highs No Lows (12 Years of Persistence) (best-of) |
| 6 | Impious | Death Domination |
| 6 | Sonic Syndicate | Rebellion (EP) |
| 10 | Jacobs Dream | Beneath the Shadows |
| 10 | Krallice | Dimensional Bleedthrough |
| 10 | Swallow the Sun | New Moon |
| 10 | Throwdown | Deathless |
| 10 | Witchmaster | Trücizna |
| 11 | Lonewolf | The Dark Crusade |
| 13 | Mob Rules | Radical Peace |
| 13 | Nostradameus | Illusion's Parade |
| 13 | Running Wild | ReUnation – A Tribute to Running Wild (tribute album) |
| 16 | Miseration | The Mirroring Shadow |
| 16 | Urgehal | Ikonoklast |
| 17 | Devin Townsend | Addicted |
| 17 | The Empire Shall Fall | Awaken |
| 17 | Helix | Vagabond Bones |
| 17 | Rush | Working Men (Live Album) |
| 18 | Dark Funeral | Angelus Exuro pro Eternus |
| 18 | Nightwish | Lokikirja (box set) |
| 19 | Obituary | Live Xecution – Party. San 2008 (live DVD) |
| 23 | Metallica | Français Pour Une Nuit (live DVD) |
| 24 | Scorpions | Amazonia – Live in the Jungle (live DVD) |
| 25 | Elis | Catharsis |
| 25 | Outrage | Outrage |
| 27 | Manowar | Hell on Earth V (DVD) |
| 30 | Metallica | Orgullo, Pasión Y Gloria - Tres Noches En La Ciudad De México (DVD) |

### December

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Carcass | Pungent Excruciation: Live (live album) |
| 3 | Master's Hammer | Mantras |
| 7 | Yngwie Malmsteen | High Impact (compilation) |
| 8 | Nonpoint | Cut the Cord (EP) |
| 8 | Puddle of Mudd | Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate |
| 9 | Disarmonia Mundi | The Isolation Game |
| 16 | Helloween | Unarmed - Best of 25th Anniversary |
| 18 | Coronatus | Fabula Magna |
| 18 | Heavenly | Carpe Diem |
| 18 | Tankard | Open All Night – Reloaded (DVD) |
| 22 | Mudvayne | Mudvayne |
| 23 | Heathen | The Evolution of Chaos |
| 26 | Nokturnal Mortum | The Voice of Steel |